CNN Reporters Call CPAC a ‘Conservative Petri Dish’
Shortly before noon Thursday, live from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), CNN political reporter Peter Hamby described the gathering as a “conservative petri dish” to measure “how Mitt Romney is received and how his challengers are received too.” Anchor Suzanne Malveaux chimed in: “I love that, conservative petri dish. That’s a great way to describe it.”
A petri dish is defined as “a shallow circular dish with a loose-fitting cover, used to culture bacteria or other microorganisms.” As if conservatives are some kind of organism in a contained space to be studied from above by the “scientists” at CNN for our harmful effects. We’re not the Ebola virus, but that seems as if it’s how CNN sees conservatives.
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REPORTER PETER HAMBY, AT CPAC: Tomorrow is a big, big day here. Mitt
Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum just a few days after Santorum
had that February 7th sweep. Riding high on a lot of momentum. They're
all speaking here. Now remember four years ago, Mitt Romney came here as
sort of the conservative alternative to the establishment frontrunner
John McCain and Romney got a very warm reception here, the crowd really
loved him. He dropped out here at CPAC after giving a pretty good
speech. Now, this time of course Mitt Romney is that establishment, sort
of moderate centrist frontrunner with two conservative insurgents,
three, rather, on the side. So it will be interesting to see in
this kind of conservative petri dish how Mitt Romney is received and how
his challengers are received too, Suzanne.
